LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Two men who discovered a man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his pickup truck stole the vehicle and dumped the corpse in the roadway, authorities said Tuesday.

Michael Hollingshead, 43, of Judsonia and Austin Flynn, 22, of Bald Knob were being held in the White County Jail on $25,000 bond on charges of theft and abuse of a corpse.

“These two men stumbled upon him basically. They took him out of the vehicle and stole his truck,” sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Steve Hernandez said.

Hernandez said deputies were called Saturday with a report of a suspicious vehicle stopped along Safely Road near Judsonia. When deputies arrived, there was no truck but there was a body in the roadway.

Initially, deputies suspected the man had been murdered but learned after speaking with his wife that the man had taken his own life, Hernandez said.

An Arkansas State Police trooper found the truck, which had run out of gas, near Bald Knob. The two suspects were still inside of it and were arrested.

Investigators were still looking for the gun. They also were looking for two other area men for questioning.

“It’s pretty bold. A normal person in a normal mindset ... their natural reaction is to call law enforcement,” Hernandez said.

Hollingshead and Flynn are scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 6. The White County clerk’s office said there was no record yet of either man having an attorney.